Pemanfaatan Teknologi Pascapanen untuk Pengembangan Agroindustri Perdesaan di Indonesia

EnglishPostharvest handling application is one of the ways to increase agricultural commodity's added value. In addition, it also can reduce agricultural yield loss. Technology application is started with dissemination and socialization activity and then followed by technology adoption. The process of dissemination and adoption of the introduced technologies is a crucial part of the efforts to apply technology at the end user's level. Various influencing factors on the process of dissemination and adoption are associated with the technology, dissemination process, and technology beneficiaries. This paper describes an analysis of post-harvest technology transfer process mainly for food crops and estate crops, and community development in various regions of Indonesia. A concept of zero waste development policy is enhanced in the process of disseminating postharvest technology toward development of rural agro-industry. With that action, it is expected that farmers' income and agricultural commodity competitiveness could be improved.IndonesianPenerapan teknologi pascapanen merupakan salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan nilai tambah komoditas pertanian. Selain itu, aplikasi teknologi pascapanen juga dapat menekan kehilangan hasil panen. Penerapan teknologi diawali dengan diseminasi teknologi, selanjutnya terjadi adopsi teknologi. Proses diseminasi dan adopsi teknologi ini merupakan bagian penting dalam pemanfaatan teknologi bagi pengguna. Berbagai faktor yang berpengaruh dalam proses diseminasi dan adopsi teknologi terkait dengan teknologi, proses diseminasi, dan penerima manfaat teknologi tersebut. Tulisan ini mendeskripsikan proses alih teknologi pascapanen produk tanaman pangan dan tanaman perkebunan serta pemberdayaan masyarakat pengguna teknologi pascapanen di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Dalam proses mendiseminasikan teknologi pascapanen menuju pengembangan agroindustri di perdesaan dikembangkan konsep kebijakan yang diharapkan dapat meningkatkan pendapatan petani dan daya saing komoditas pertanian

Post-chemotherapy residual mass in stage IIC seminomatous testicular tumor

Introduction The management of patients with residual masses following chemotherapy for advanced seminoma remains a difficult problem with no clear guidelines. While most patients with advanced seminoma achieve a complete or partial response with cisplatin based chemotherapy1, a significant number will reveal a residual mass on follow up CT scan or MR imaging2,3. Management options for post chemotherapy residual mass in a case of seminoma include close observation, radiation therapy and excisional surgery. While 80 to 85% of residual masses represent either fibrosis or necrotic tissue needing no further therapy, 10 to 15% may contain viable tumor which, if not recognized and effectively treated, may be lethal. A case of a stage II seminoma with post chemotherapy residual mass is presented and contemporary literature on this topic is reviewed

Newly Discovered RR Lyrae Stars in the SDSSXPanXSTARRS1XCatalina Footprint

We present the detection of 6,371 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars distributed across ~14,000 deg^2 of the sky from the combined data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (PS1), and the second photometric catalogue from the Catalina Survey (CSDR2), out of these, ~2,021 RRL stars (~572 RRab and 1,449 RRc) are new discoveries. The RRL stars have heliocentric distances in the 4--28 kpc distance range. RRL-like color cuts from the SDSS and variability cuts from the PS1 are used to cull our candidate list. We then use the CSDR2 multi-epoch data to refine our sample. Periods were measured using the Analysis of Variance technique while the classification process is performed with the Template Fitting Method in addition to the visual inspection of the light curves. A cross-match of our RRL star discoveries with previous published catalogs of RRL stars yield completeness levels of ~50% for both RRab and RRc stars, and an efficiency of ~99% and ~87% for RRab and RRc stars, respectively. We show that our method for selecting RRL stars allows us to recover halo structures. The full lists of all the RRL stars are made publicly available.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures. Accepted 2014 March 30. Received 2014 March 12; in original form 2013 November 2

Monopoles, shockwaves and the classical double copy

The classical double copy relates exact solutions in biadjoint scalar, gauge and gravity theories. Recently, nonperturbative solutions have been found in biadjoint theory, which have been speculated to be related to the Wu-Yang monopole in gauge theory. We show that this seems not to be the case, by considering monopole solutions in the infinitely boosted (shockwave) limit. Furthermore, we show that the Wu-Yang monopole is instead related to the Taub-NUT solution, whose previously noted single copy is that of an abelian- like (Dirac) monopole. Our results demonstrate how abelian and non-abelian gauge theory objects can be associated with the same gravity object, and clarify a number of open questions concerning the scope of the classical double copy

Importance of Phenotype-Genotype correlation for Next Generation Sequencing Data to diagnose Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Background:Pediatric neurological disorders can be mainly categorized into four areas such as movement disorders, epilepsy associated disorders, neuro-peripheral disorders and neuropsychiatric disorders. They can be identified from in-utero to 18 years. The interpretation of sequencing results based on phenotype-genotype correlation are important for the clinicians, patients and the family for further treatment and  management.Materials & Methods: Sixteen patients were referred to the department of Genetics of a tertiary care hospital for post-test counselling along with clinical exome reports. In cases where there was no reported variants, reanalysis of raw data was performed using a freeware by Illumina. Variants identified were assessed for genotype-phenotype correlations and evaluated by segregation analysis wherever required to arrive at a molecular diagnosis.Results:Six patients had a report with a pathogenic sequence variant correlating with the phenotype,   four patients were reported with a Variant of Unknown Significance, while the sequence data of remaining six patients was reanalyzed to establish diagnosis.Conclusion:Results indicate the important role that a genetic counselor plays in establishing the genotype-phenotype correlation and providing appropriate post-test genetic counselling to help pediatric neurologists to manage patients and assist patients to take informed reproductive/predictive/pre-natal decisions. Keywords: neurological,patients,genetics,hospita

Scenarios of cycling to school in England, and associated health and carbon impacts: Application of the ‘Propensity to Cycle Tool’

© 2019 The Authors Background: The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is a freely available, interactive tool help prioritise cycling initially launched in England in 2017 and based on adult commuting data. This paper applies the method to travel to school data, and assesses health and carbon benefits based on nationwide scenarios of cycling uptake. Methods: The 2011 National School Census provides origin-destination data for all state-funded schools in England (N = 7,442,532 children aged 2–18 in 21,443 schools). Using this dataset, we modelled propensity to cycle as a function of route distance and hilliness between home and school. We generated scenarios, including ‘Go Dutch’ – in which English children were as likely to cycle as Dutch children, accounting for trip distance and hilliness. We estimated changes in the level of cycling, walking, and driving, and associated impacts on physical activity and carbon emissions. Results: In 2011, 1.8% of children cycled to school (1.0% in primary school, 2.7% in secondary school). If Dutch levels of cycling were reached, under the Go Dutch scenario, this would rise to 41.0%, a 22-fold increase. This is larger than the 6-fold increase in Go Dutch for adult commuting. This would increase total physical activity among pupils by 57%, and reduce transport-related carbon emissions by 81 kilotonnes/year. These impacts would be substantially larger in secondary schools than primary schools (a 96% vs. 9% increase in physical activity, respectively). Conclusion: Cycling to school is uncommon in England compared with other Northern European countries. Trip distances and hilliness alone cannot explain the difference, suggesting substantial unmet potential. We show that policies resulting in substantial uptake of cycling to school would have important health and environmental benefits. At the level of road networks, the results can inform local investment in safe routes to school to help realise these potential benefits.. JW and AA's contributions were supported by the Centre for Diet and ActivityResearch (CEDAR), a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence funded by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer ResearchUK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), andthe Wellcome Trust

Bounds and Inequalities Relating h-Index, g-Index, e-Index and Generalized Impact Factor

Finding relationships among different indices such as h-index, g-index, e-index, and generalized impact factor is a challenging task. In this paper, we describe some bounds and inequalities relating h-index, g-index, e-index, and generalized impact factor. We derive the bounds and inequalities relating these indexing parameters from their basic definitions and without assuming any continuous model to be followed by any of them.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, 5 table

Toxin production in soybean (Glycine max L.) plants with charcoal rot disease and by Macrophomina phaseolina, the fungus that causes the disease

Charcoal rot disease, caused by the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina, results in major economic losses in soybean production in southern USA. M. phaseolina has been proposed to use the toxin (-)-botryodiplodin in its root infection mechanism to create a necrotic zone in root tissue through which fungal hyphae can readily enter the plant. The majority (51.4%) of M. phaseolina isolates from plants with charcoal rot disease produced a wide range of (-)-botryodiplodin concentrations in a culture medium (0.14-6.11 μg/mL), 37.8% produced traces below the limit of quantification (0.01 μg/mL), and 10.8% produced no detectable (-)-botryodiplodin. Some culture media with traces or no (-)-botryodiplodin were nevertheless strongly phytotoxic in soybean leaf disc cultures, consistent with the production of another unidentified toxin(s). Widely ranging (-)-botryodiplodin levels (traces to 3.14 μg/g) were also observed in the roots, but not in the aerial parts, of soybean plants naturally infected with charcoal rot disease. This is the first report of (-)-botryodiplodin in plant tissues naturally infected with charcoal rot disease. No phaseolinone was detected in M. phaseolina culture media or naturally infected soybean tissues. These results are consistent with (-)-botryodiplodin playing a role in the pathology of some, but not all, M. phaseolina isolates from soybeans with charcoal rot disease in southern USA. © 2019 by the authors